Author Archive: Charla

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Sex After 60

This article first appeared in Liv Fun magazine and appears here with permission.

“Does sex get better or worse as you age?” my students ask me.  “Well,” I reflect, “that depends on what you mean by ‘sex.’

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FantaSea Slideshow

Charla’s slide show of the body painting, Key West’s FantaSea Festival, Oct 2011

Viewing the Nudes Nude: Stripping for Art

How often do you get an invitation to strip in public and call it art? So when my local nudist club suggested to artist George Krause that we attend the wine and cheese opening of his life-size nude photographs and strip naked while we do it, he jumped at the chance. Performance art. We were making history, people stripping at a public art opening!  Well, NYC and LA eat your heart out, come to Austin if you want weird. (more…)

10 Sex Mistakes Men and Women Make

Good sex is changing bad habits that don’t get us what we want.  Most men and women do these 10 things that kill good loving, or cancel out good touching and kissing. Avoid these pitfalls and turn your sex life into timeless and treasured moments!  Charla Hathaway

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Phoenix Goddess Temple Raid; a call to legalize prostitution

Several of my colleagues were arrested and jailed last week in a police raid of the Phoenix Goddess Temple. This event begs us to face the fear, misconceptions and judgments we have against  sex workers in our country. All sex workers–be they erotic educators, tantrikas, shamans, prostitutes or anything in between–need legal status in order to better serve the consenting adult population who seek their revolutionary services. Hundreds of my sex educator colleagues stand in solidarity against our country’s laws that criminalize prostitution.

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